<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Los Angeles Clippers signed guard Guillermo Diaz on Thursday. Diaz, the Clippers' second-round pick in 2006, played in the Czech Republic and Greece last season. The 6-foot-2 guard averaged 10.2 points and 3.2 rebounds in five games for the Clippers' Las Vegas Summer League team. Diaz averaged 20.1 points, 3.1 rebounds and 3.3 assists in 15 games for CEZ Basketball Nymburk in the Czech Republic. He also played five games in the Greek League, averaging 13 points. He played three college seasons at Miami.</div> Source: Yahoo Sports
I never heard of Diaz but the Clippers are signing a guard i guess there optimistic about Livingston.
<div class="quote_poster">Dark Hero Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I never heard of Diaz but the Clippers are signing a guard i guess there optimistic about Livingston.</div> Good ole' Billy Diaz The guy was a stud in college, was considered to be lottery talent. Then the draft camps and workouts started, scouts decided he was too short for SG, and his athleticism wasn't as good as people originally thought it out to be. He could end up being a good scorer off the bench to give them a spark, could possibly turn into Mike James type player down the road.
Not to mention the guy has nasty ups. He's a good player but I don't know much about his offensive game besides well his ups lol
dude is insane..got to see him play in high school. He can pretty much do anything and everything on the court not to mention his 50' vert. I cant wait to see him play.
He's an incredible athlete, but that's about it. He's actually a volleyball player who started playing basketball late in life after being recruited for his vertical leap. As a result of his inexperience, Diaz doesn't get the most out of his athletic gifts. Instead of driving to the hole, he's content with being a spot-up shooter. He's fun to watch in transition, but he's not going to be taking his man off the dribble as frequently as he should with those kind of physical talents. Unfortunately, his height (6'0"-6'3" depending on your source) will probably keep him confined to playing the point, where his lack of basketball IQ becomes a real liability.
<div class="quote_poster">Voodoo Child Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Unfortunately, his height (6'0"-6'3" depending on your source) will probably keep him confined to playing the point, where his lack of basketball IQ becomes a real liability.</div> It's always surprising to me when I hear about NBA teams discussing the relative basketball IQs of different players. I mean, there's so much money flowing around, and it isn't a massively complicated game... wouldn't you think players would be competent enough generally for this not to be a common theme? But it always seems to be..."geez, wish this guy were 6-5 instead of 6-2, cause we could really use a dumbass shooting guard, but not a dumbass point guard." It's just discouraging as the talent pool gets more and more dissolved... and now the NBA wants teams in Europe? We already have great euro players, and they have their own very popular and formidable leagues over there, why do we need to spread it so thin? Pretty soon they'll have so many teams, GMs will be falling over each other trying to sign Keith Bogans or Kelvin Cato to max dollars.
